Hi everyone! Sorry, I forgot about last week’s “Ask me anything” session, so let’s use this post as usual: you reply with questions and I’ll answer them.
Moreover, I would like to give you some news about the project roadmap. I did not forgot to release a stable version, actually 1.13.3 is expected by the end of the year. In the meantime I’ve been focusing mostly on technical improvements, refactoring and code cleanup. For example I made dependency injection and gradle scripts much more maintainable, and I’ve been fixing a couple of issues that you reported.
Once I’m done with some more bugs (e.g. the ones concerning images) I’ll be releasing, so don’t worry. If some of you are willing to test the beta releases, you are more than welcome, thanks.
As always #livefasteattrash 🦝🦝🦝
I don’t use raccoon yet, and I do like the slashed zero being the default font. I use photon.lemmy.world on desktop - mainly for the separate up/downvotes, is there an option to separate them on raccoon?
Yes, there in a “Vote format” option in the “Content appearance” screen, which you can access from the main Settings page.
Settings > Content Appearance > Vote format > Separate
Cool project, found it from this post about 85 seconds ago. You’ve got a lot of info on your GitHub but nothing in the community sidebar or pinned posts on what Racoon actually offers/what you focus on to stand out.
On to an actual question: Besides the cute name, what made you want to create Raccoon?
Mainly two reasons:
- I wanted to test Kotlin Multiplatform and its ecosystem on a “real world project”
- back in mid-2023, Lemmy apps were incomplete and I did not find any which had all the right things in the right place for my taste, but the ones I liked the most were either closed source or used languages I am not an expert in so I couldn’t contribute to them.
Additionally I wanted to create a project where people could participate, ask for features, configure the app as they wished and engage in discussions freely.
Maybe I should update the sidebar with the list of features and the target of the project.
EDIT: sidebar updated 😉
This may have been asked and answered a bunch of times already, I don’t follow the project closely-
Is racoon for Lemmy associated with racoon for Friendica? I saw a comment that led me to belive they may be now completely separate projects
Hope you’re having a lovely day :)
Yes they are separate projects, two completely independent apps. But they are maintained by the same people (person) and are built on similar tech stacks, although not entirely equal.
Raccoon for Lemmy is the oldest one (and most feature rich) and is a Lemmy client, Raccoon for Friendica is a Friendica/Mastodon client born as a “spinoff” but focusing more on social interactions rather than news aggregation.
Friendica needed a mobile client, I thought to leverage what I had learned doing the Lemmy app to create one.
